Thus man becomes a child again and is born into a circle of brothers and sisters; but his mother is the “communion of the saints,” the church, and his circle of brothers and sisters is humanity, with whom he is united anew in the common inheritance of the primitive symbol. It seems...
Dr. Oliver thinks it probable that there were a few symbols among these Primitive and Pure Freemasons, and he enumerates among them the serpent, the triangle, and the point within a circle; but I can find no authority for the supposition, nor do I think it fair to claim for the order...
In Christianity, the ringing of a bell is a sacred announcement to the presence of Christ at mass. The Buddist traditions hail the sounding of a bell as the resonance of pure wisdom – a tonal symbol of perfect harmony & clarity. In Asian thought the bell is also a harmonic symbol – t...
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These maternal associations also turn up in medieval art, where the Virgin Mary, Christianity’s foremost mother-figure, is often shown suckling the infant Jesus. There’s even a name for this:Maria lactans. Curiously, this noble depiction of Mary is often contrasted with ‘bad’ mothers who...
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None of the other basic shapes offer this kind of inherent duplicity. When we turn a square on its side, the symbol meaning remains the same. Same with the circle – rolling it around, it’s still a circle. The triangle proposes mammoth, polar variables in meanings when tipped top from ...
two down – enclosed inside a circle. This style of pentagram has existed for countless thousands of years, first dating back to around 3500 BC, where it was used in Ancient Mesopotamia, at least latterly, by rulers as a symbol indicating that their power breadth the four corners of the ...
(which used it as a magical sigil for the control supernatural creatures). When talking about magic, the occultists believe a single triangle can be used as a method for summoning spirits. They’ll stand inside of a circle while a spirit is conjured into a triangle during rituals to allow ...